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The Mistress's Tools
White women and the economy of slavery.
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Lynne Feeley
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The Nation
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February 26, 2019
In the Dismal Swamp
Though Donald Trump has made it into a catchphrase, he didn’t come up with the metaphor “drain the swamp.”
by
Sam Worley
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Popula
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September 20, 2018
Jefferson and Hemings: How Negotiation Under Slavery Was Possible
In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.
by
Daina Ramey Berry
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HISTORY
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July 8, 2018
Bringing Rapes to Court
How sexual assault victims in colonial America navigated a legal system that was enormously stacked against them.
by
Sharon Block
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Commonplace
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April 1, 2003
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